supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (41103042);Zhejiang Provincial Key Science and Technology Innovation Team (2010R50030);Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation Program (Y5080110 and Z5080203);the Opening Project of State Key Laboratory of Environmental Geochemistry (SKLEG9011);the Opening Project of Ministry of Education Laboratory for Earth Surface Processes, Peking University (201106)
As an important long-term terrestrial carbon sequestration mechanism, biogeochemical sequestration of carbon within phytoliths may play a significant role in the global carbon cycle and climate change. The aim of this...
supported by the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (XDA05130602);the National Natural Science Foundation of China (4107113)
Phytoliths are noncrystalline minerals that form inside cells and cell walls of different parts of plants. Organic carbon in living cells can be occluded in phytoliths during plant growth. It has been documented that ...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (40971116 and 30870238)
Measuring the response of terrestrial ecosystems to elevated CO2 concentrations is very important for understanding the effects of global change. In this study,OTC (open top chambers) were used to simulate elevated CO...